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VentureBeat: Augmented reality company Layar gets $1M boost, launches on Symbian

  • scmoatti · 1 week ago
    It'll be interesting to see what Layar can come up with on Symbian. The Symbian platform is certainly more complex than the younger Android and iPhone ones, which is probably what made Layar hesitate to invest... At the same time, it offers many more capabilities which Nokia has already taken advantage of with it's Point & Find offering.

    The P&F service launched earlier this year and is the first real-time augmented reality browser. It combines location-based technologies like GPS and CellID, with real-time image recognition, and is built on the broad POI content DB that Navteq provides. You can get their client at http://pointandfind.nokia.com or on the Ovi Store.

    Welcome Layar to mobile augmented reality! Exciting to see the space picking up at last.